Quality and resonable replica of the N&W heavy's?

[NW Modeling List]

They are, of course, based on PRR prototypes, and merely painted for 
N&W, with the exception that 6 wheel trucks have been subsituted for 4 
wheel trucks on the coach. Some will consider the red a little light, 
but overall, they are not unpleasant (I can't say as much for the red 
IHC uses on the lightweight N&W cars). In design, the combine, coach and 
diner approximate N&W heavyweights as well as anything else available. 
Unless you want to scratchbuild or kitbash, they make a reasonable 
choice. The observation has no real N&W correspondent, since they were 
all business cars with considerably different window arrangements.     
Jim Nichols

NW Modeling List wrote:


>Gentlemen:

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>A question to the group at large, how would you rate the Bachmann 

>Spectrum Heavy

>weight passenger cars, sample Walthers Cat Part # 160-89410, relative to basic

>quality of the replication of the Coach, Combine, Diner, and Observation cars,

>the color, laydown of the trucks, basic scale and shape of window arrangements,

>doors, vents, undercarrige etc... vs the original N&W passenger period

>equipment?

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>Thanks

>Eric Raitch

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